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    wanted to be more than just a farm boy to blow Daisy away. After the war, Gatsby was not over his love, Daisy; therefore, he decides to do everything in his power to obtain her. However, time later he finds out that she is married. Nonetheless, this does not stop Gatsby in his journey to reunite with his gorgeous damsel. Out of respect for the relationship, if a woman bears a ring on her left hand, a man does not attempt to pursuit her because she is already taken. Gatsby, however, is so…

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    life for her. This reinforced Gatsby as a romantic hero since he makes money for the purpose to win Daisy back, hold parties at home wish that Daisy would come, he even asked Daisy at the hotel in New York City to leave Tom and be with him. Jay is even willing to take the blame on murders, he felt like Daisy needs him. However, even as such a romantic character, Daisy still left the town without even attending Gatsby’s funeral. The destined death of Gatsby is his destruction although this…

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    her husband, which causes loneliness to grow in her heart. “…Daisy and George seem to share a unique type of loneliness. They are both in loveless marriages. Daisy and Tom are alike but they don’t seem to have true love for each other” (Characters). This loneliness drives her to take steps to change her life because she does not want to live her life lonely. She has loneliness inside because she has a “loveless marriage” and will have loneliness with just his money. No matter what Daisy has…

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    American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby. Article 1 speaks to how the Great Gatsby symbolizes the American Dream through the characters of Nick Carraway and Gatsby himself, but also explains how it could also be a bad thing to want. From this point of view this novel was believed to be a romantic novel as well as a social statement. Fitzgerald himself experienced and was arguably the product of the American Dream in the early 1900’s. In Article 2, the author argues that the whole novel…

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    and dress. Instead of becoming a peasant child at midnight, she runs home to arrive before her mother and sisters who would surely kill her if they knew. On the second day of the ball, the prince watches Cinderella run away for the second time but on this day, he covered his stairs in sap to be sure her shoe would fall off. When the prince takes the shoe to the house of Cinderella, the stepsisters try desperately to fit into the shoe, they even resort to cutting parts off their feet off. In the…

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    major American novelist of the 1920s generation was more enamored with a lifestyle of excess and pleasure than F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams was part of his writing his style on his stories of wanting wealth and to be upper ranks and this can be supported by his life events, the world around him, and the analysis of Winter Dreams, even though he hated materialistic and wealth at the time. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. His father was…

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    Jay Gatsby a poor man turned wealthy. A man with one goal; become successful. But this success was not for him it was for the love of his life, Daisy. He loved Daisy dearly but he could never marry her poor. Thus started his journey to capture his prize. But this journey would also be the start of his demise that was brought upon him by more than just himself. Gatsby’s downfall was caused by a number of people. The first person, himself. Gatsby’s intense desire to be rich by any means necessary…

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    In the novel The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the idea of the American dream throughout the character Gatsby and the novel. He uses literary devices such as, the Valley of Ashes and the green light, to point out what the American Dream can represent and what the consequences of it can be. The message seems to be leaning more towards the negative side, in my opinion. Overall the importance of wealth and competition in the novel seems to be of great significance. The…

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    high drums." (Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby) The twenties are known for a loose society. Music was getting louder, clothing was getting looser, and alcohol was more and more available. It was very much a pleasure driven society. Fitzgerald illustrates this from large scale, as seen in Gatsby's parties, to smaller scale, which is demonstrated in the first gathering in New York in Chapter two. Nick and Tom head up to New York to meet up with Myrtle, her sister, and some of their friends. Nick…

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    interact with each other in The Great Gatsby to create complex wealthy characters who know nothing about the true meaning of love. Wealth plays a huge role in The Great Gatsby by it being human nature for money to make upper-class people careless. In this novel Gatsby would throw huge parties, have lots of alcohol, a bunch of party guests in his…

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